
The Beautiful Game Breaking Bad
What happens when you stand up against a culture of violence and corruption in a game that is the national passion? You'd better be brave.
Nick Olle·Jul 23, 2012
Truth · Insight · Authority
Long-form reporting and narrative journalism.

What happens when you stand up against a culture of violence and corruption in a game that is the national passion? You'd better be brave.

Inside the oldest continuously published newspaper in the southern hemisphere, a lone internet terminal in the early 1990s was regarded as a novelty, not as the time bomb it turned out to be.

Internationally feted, the director of the revived ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt faces corruption claims, MPs calling for his resignation, and a staff in revolt. Commandoes helped him escape the angry librarians — and of the rest, Ismail Serageldin is unfazed.